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OVERVIEW 8 Shepparton Irrigation Region Catchment Implementation Strategy The Shepparton Irrigation Region Catchment Implementation Strategy is a 30-year strategy that provides the framework for land, water and biodiversity management. Commencing in 1989, with whole community cooperation, the strategy aims to improve the condition of natural resources in the Shepparton Irrigation Region for current and future community. The Shepparton Irrigation Region Catchment Implementation Strategy addresses the following issues: salinity, water quality, native biodiversity, riverine health, pest plants and animals and climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. Who pays The Shepparton Irrigation Region Catchment Implementation Strategy is funded jointly by the regional community, the Australian, Victorian and Local Governments. The regional community has a major commitment to the Shepparton Irrigation Region Catchment Implementation Strategy, both to capital projects and ongoing operation and maintenance. In 2008- 2009, this was approximately $34 million. Annually, the Shepparton Irrigation Region Implementation Committee attracts funding of close to $18 million with the majority of this funding going directly to on-ground works projects. Our Region The Shepparton Irrigation Region covers over 500,000ha and occupies approximately one third of the Goulburn Broken catchment, the eastern area of the North Central catchment and forms part of the Murray-Darling Basin. The irrigated area of 317,000ha within the Shepparton Irrigation Region utilise approximately 1.5 million megalitres of water each year. The gross value of agricultural production in 2005-2006 (ABS) was $1.38 billion. This accounts for 14.9 percent of Victoria’s gross value of agricultural production. The main primary industries are horticulture, dairying, cropping and grazing. The Shepparton Irrigation Region’s population is over 120,000 people and includes more than 7000 rural properties, with over 20 percent of those landholders being of a multicultural background. Our region is home to the largest Indigenous Australian population outside metropolitan Melbourne. Cultural and linguistic diversity is a feature of the region where well established communities, primarily as a result of Southern European post-war migration, co-exist with more recently arrived communities from countries such as Iraq, Iran and India. A modernised irrigation structure in the Shepparton Irrigation Region
CHAIR’S MESSAGE Peter Gibson Chair Shepparton Irrigation Region Implementation Committee It is with great sadness that I begin my message by acknowledging the sudden passing of our Executive Officer Ken Sampson. Ken has been the driving force and inspiration to the Committee for over 15 years. His immense technical knowledge and enthusiasm for community involvement created a unique collaboration that resulted in many natural resource management success stories over the years. This report details the program of works that the Shepparton Irrigation Region Implementation Committee has achieved over the past year. The Shepparton Irrigation Region Catchment Implementation Strategy program successfully attracted $16 million in funding through Victorian and Australian Government initiatives including Our Water Our Future, Water in a Climatically Challenged Environment, and National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. The program also included over $0.5 million of regional funds. The Implementation Committee was also supported in the delivery of the planned programs as a direct result of the ongoing commitment of the representatives from our Partnership Agencies: the Department of Primary Industries, Goulburn-Murray Water and the Department of Sustainability and Environment and the high level of professional support from the Executive Team. The Implementation Committee continues to attract community leaders and benefits from a well credentialed and diverse membership with a wide knowledge and experience base. Allen Canobie, Nick Ryan and I were reappointed to the Implementation Committee for four years. John Wenske became a new member following the completion of half the committee’s four year term. Peter McCamish did not seek reappointment due to commitments on the boards of the Northern Victoria Irrigation Renewal Project and Water for Victoria. On behalf of the Implementation Committee I would like to thank Peter for his dedication and the knowledge and energy he brought to the Implementation Committee during his four year term. I would personally like to commend the continued work of my fellow Committee members: Allen Canobie, Steve Farrell, John Gray, Helen Reynolds, Nick Ryan, Roger Wrigley and John Wenske together with our Assistant Executive Officer, Peter Howard, and Agency representatives Terry Batey, James Burkitt and Rob Steel. I thank them for their hard work and personal contribution. On behalf of the Committee, I would like to pay tribute to Ken who has been taken all too soon. May we, as a Committee, continue to strive for the better outcomes in the Shepparton Irrigation Region community that Ken had dedicated his working life to. Peter Gibson Peter Gibson and Ken Sampson (dec’d) chairing a Shepparton Irrigation Region Implementation Committee meeting CHAIR’S MESSAGE 9
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Page 3 and 4: Contents OVERVIEW .................
Page 5 and 6: Committees, Agencies, Community Gro
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Page 11 and 12: ACTIVITIES and ACHIEVEMENTS Executi
Page 13 and 14: Industries supervision in April. Al
Page 15 and 16: Mandatory Environmental Monitoring
Page 17 and 18: Farm Program Written by David Lawle
Page 19 and 20: Drainage Re-use System Project A to
Page 21 and 22: • Stocks of the State Prohibited
Page 23 and 24: Targets - short term: The following
Page 25 and 26: • Brays Swamp Management Plan - s
Page 27 and 28: August 2008 Watertable map Given th
Page 29 and 30: Waterways Program Written by Mark T
Page 31 and 32: Victorian Environmental Flows Monit
Page 33 and 34: Monitoring Program Written by Greg
Page 35 and 36: Municipal Coordination Formal links
Page 37 and 38: Spatial variability in pasture prod
Page 39 and 40: The findings of the research confir
Page 41 and 42: Salinity targets achieved since 199
Page 43 and 44: SIRCIS funds source 2008-2009 SIRCI
Page 45 and 46: Community Education Awareness Grant
Page 47 and 48: Budget Sub-Committee Groundwater an
Page 49 and 50: Publications and presentations Envi
Page 51 and 52: Partnership Agency Staff 2008-2009
Page 53 and 54: Research Department of Primary Indu
Page 55: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The preparation of

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